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(
&
, 2712), an adjective denoting “full of idols” (
,
“throughout,” and
), is said of Athens in Acts 17:16,
RV
, and
KJV
, marg. (
KJV
,
“wholly given to idolatry”).¶
IDOLS (offered to, sacrificed to)
1.
$
(
*
, 1494) is an adjective signifying “sacrificed to idols”
(
, as above, and
$
, “to sacrifice”), Acts 15:29; 21:25; 1 Cor. 8:1, 4, 7, 10;
10:19 (in all these the
RV
substitutes “sacrificed” for the
KJV
); Rev. 2:14, 20 (in these the
RV
and
KJV
both have “sacrificed”). Some inferior mss. have this adjective in 1 Cor.
10:28; see No. 2. The flesh of the victims, after sacrifice, was eaten or sold.¶
2.
$
, “offered in sacrifice” (
, “sacred,” and
$
, “to sacrifice”), is
found in the best mss. in 1 Cor. 10:28 (see No. 1).¶
IDOL’S TEMPLE
(or
) (
*
, 1493), an “idol’s temple,” is mentioned in 1 Cor.
8:10; feasting in the temple usually followed the sacrifice.¶
IDOLATER
(
*
1 $
, 1496), an “idolater” (from
, and
, “a
hireling”), is found in 1 Cor. 5:10, 11; 6:9; 10:7; the warning is to believers against
turning away from God to idolatry, whether “openly or secretly, consciously or
unconsciously” (Cremer); Eph. 5:5; Rev. 21:8; 22:15.¶
IDOLATRY
(or
/
) (
*
$ &
, 1495), whence Eng., “idolatry,” (from
,
and
, “service”), is found in 1 Cor. 10:14; Gal. 5:20; Col. 3:5; and, in the plural, in
1 Pet. 4:3.¶
Heathen sacrifices were sacrificed to demons, 1 Cor. 10:19; there was a dire reality in
the cup and table of demons and in the involved communion with demons. In Rom. 1:22-
25, “idolatry,” the sin of the mind against God (Eph. 2:3), and immorality, sins of the
flesh, are associated, and are traced to lack of the acknowledgment of God and of
gratitude to Him. An “idolater” is a slave to the depraved ideas his idols represent, Gal.
4:8, 9; and thereby, to divers lusts, Titus 3:3 (see
:
!
by Hogg and Vine, p.
44).
For
IDOLATRY
(wholly given to) see
IDOLS
(
FULL OF
)
IF: See
†
p. 1.
IGNORANCE, IGNORANT, IGNORANTLY
A. Nouns.
1.
(
/
, 52), lit., “want of knowledge or perception” (akin to
, “to
be ignorant”), denotes “ignorance” on the part of the Jews regarding Christ, Acts 3:17; of
Gentiles in regard to God, 17:30; Eph. 4:18 (here including the idea of willful blindness:
†
Indicates that the word referred to (preposition, conjunction, or particle) is not dealt
with in this volume.